Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Duh, abortion is legal

I hate abortion. I believe that if you cannot medically prove beyond reasonable doubt when a fetus becomes a human life, you should not be allowed to terminate it unless it is to save the life of the mother. The law, as it is now, disagrees. That being the case, this case is ridiculous.

A 19 year old man helped his girlfriend kill her unborn child. She asked him to do it. She punched herself in the stomach while he stepped on her stomach. He gets life in prison, she gets nothing. Democracy loses.

It is an absurd contradiction to claim that the unborn is not a child, then have laws that call the killing of these non-children murder if done without the mother's consent (or, in Texas, even with the mother's consent if it is a boyfriend doing it). This is what happens when judges make law as they did with Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court overstepped its authority and rendered irrelevant the will of the people. Some states would almost certainly make abortion illegal if the will of the people were carried out, but instead they must resort to such absurd and contradictory laws that protect a fetus as a human life while simultaneously denying protections as a human life, all depending on who is taking that life.

Lifetime appointments for judges have their upside, but the downside of having them be unanswerable is becoming increasingly disturbing. Roe v. Wade should be overturned, and the states should decide for themselves. So long as abortion-on-demand is legal, a 19 year old who helps kill his girlfriend's unborn child at her request should be guilty of nothing.

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